Mining focused and all-in results driven
We help you stay ahead of the curve…
During these times of immense change, our mining clients are striving to retain a safe and stable work environment for their employees while keeping their business’s AISC, TCC & OMA costs in line from rising supplier prices and labor skills shortages.
PVA is a Management Services Consultancy with over three decades of business that works closely with our Mining Industry Partners to deliver organizational, operational and financial results both in North America & internationally.
Areas of Scope Part 1
PROCESSING (Mill / Refinery / Plant)
- Safety Compliance
- Operational Readiness
- Basic Operator Envelope skills
- SPC management systems
- Recovery
CONTRACTOR MANAGEMENT
- Safety and Policy compliance
- Productivity
- Contract compliance
- Quality execution
- Vendor Performance Reviews
MAINTENANCE (Mobile / Mill / SD)
- Safety Compliance
- Planning & Scheduling
- Works Orders estimating
- Field / In Pit Rapid Maintenance
- PM compliance
- Work Order Backlog management
- Shut Down Maintenance
- Reliability Maintenance
- SD Postmortems
Areas of Scope Part 2
PROCUREMENT / CONTRACTS / LOGISTICS
- Procurement consolidation
- Contract & PO Life Cycle management
- End User compliance
- Vendor SLAs & Rates
- Negotiation skills
MATERIALS / INVENTORY
- Stock vs. Direct Buy
- Critical Spares
- In-Stock & Inventory Control
- Kitting / Parts Delivery / Laydowns
MINE OPERATIONS (Opencast / UG)
- Safety Compliance
- Load & Haul
- Drill & Blast
- Dilution
- Development / Services
- Dispatch
- Compliance to Mine Plan
- ROM Blending / Feeding
- Crusher Circuit
Challenges
Within the Mining industry, some of the challenges we have recently seen are:
- Safety compliance opportunities by Mine and Contractor workforce in executing new procedures and processes.
- Increased AISC and TCC pressures while labor and material costs continue to increase.
- Aging Assets and Fleets resulting in poor utilization; Budget attainment-to-plan; and increased OPEX and maintenance spend.
- Numerous ineffective communications and hands-offs between business areas impacting cost and schedule.
- New / Emerging Technology platforms not getting the anticipated return on investments.
- Lack of sufficient Manager and Supervisor training and one-on-one coaching to prepare the next generation of frontline leaders.
- Management Operating Systems that are “data rich” but do not drive the right “Behaviors at the Point-of- Execution” © focusing on Safety, Quality and Efficiencies in the processes.
Approach
Our Approach begins in the Assessment Phase with gaining a deep understanding of our top client’s vision for future success and determining if there is a gap between the current state and their strategies for realizing it.
We then combine our reputation for always delivering on our operational and financial benefit commitments, along with our industry-unique methodology of the strategic installation of significantly more effective processes and management operating systems across all in-scope functions of the client business enterprise, in order to sustainably transform our client organizations in-line with their vision.
Our mining clients, who are 95% unionized, have relied on us to help them achieve sustained results in:
- 100% Safety Compliance and Safety Management Systems
- Opex & Capex cost reduction
- Improved operational efficiency
- Improved attainment to budgets, mine plans, and unit costs
- Improved asset and fleet availability and utilization
- Decreased work backlogs
- Improved maintenance program schedule attainment
